09-22-2011, 11:51 AM | #1 |
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Instructions: How To Return Kindle Library Books Early
Just found this:
http://www.slideshare.net/WakeCounty...le-ebook-early Good to know... I did the three week checkout, just in case, but it's a good book, so I'll be done early [about two days]. :-) |
09-22-2011, 12:15 PM | #2 |
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Good information, thanks! Was actually looking for this.
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09-22-2011, 02:22 PM | #3 |
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Whoever made that slideshow needs to get AdBlockPlus and/or a compatible browser.
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09-22-2011, 03:55 PM | #4 |
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The guy that didn't include this on the Amazon Kindle info page deserves to be fired.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...deId=200747550 OR maybe he got a raise because Amazon thinks more people will give up and buy the ebook because most people don't know the proper way to return an ebook to the Library. |
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That's good to know. Keep in mind that your account can get temporarily locked if you return too many books early too many times. I don't know how often this happens are what the exact numbers are but I'd heard that it could happen. I downloaded a few last week then decided to read something else and returned them so someone else could get them. I was given an error message that my account was temporarily locked for returning books early too many times and to wait a few days. I tried again three days later and all went well and I can check books out again.
It doesn't seem to be a big deal but it's something to keep in mind. - Byron |
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The publishers are trying to limit the number of times that an ebook can be checked out, attempting to artificially limit their availability. Similar to how they only allow you to check out 3 (depending on your library I assume) ebooks at a time, they don't want you to check out a large number very quickly, limiting your total number of checkouts, both to keep the library from having to pay too much for one user, and to limit the total distribution. I'm guessing that this is part of their license. Also... a person who is checking out large numbers of books and quickly returning them could very well be stripping the DRM, so this would reduce their capacity to do that. I see it no different than if they were to not allow early returns, you'd hit your three book limit and be limited to at most three books per week. |
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You really do have to space those returns out if you check out alot of books. |
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